The Sacramento City Council tonight will vote on a plan to start dumping city garbage locally instead of trucking it to Nevada.

Back in 1998, city officials decided against dumping city
garbage in the county-owned Kiefer Landfill just south of Rancho
Cordova…and instead opted to truck it to a landfill in Western
Nevada.

"That was because the Kiefer Landfill did not have all the
certified insurance and indemnifications plus financially that was
the best deal for the city was to truck it over there."

Sacramento's Utilities Director Marty Hanneman says fuel prices
for diesel trucks were cheaper back then too. Now they're much
higher.

Hanneman says now the city wants to reduce its carbon footprint.
But dumping city garbage at Kiefer will still be a little more
expensive than dumping it in Nevada and people who live in the city
will have to help make up the difference in their monthly
bill.

"It's going to be slightly more, is what we're projecting in two
years, by about 25-cents per household more on their bill."

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors has already approved
the deal to send city garbage to the Kiefer Landfill.